AP Literature Prose Rubric
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Persuasive analysis of author uses literary devices to depict subject.
Makes a strong case for interpretation.
Considers a variety of literary devices.
Engages text through apt and specific references.
Perceptive analysis.
Writing is clear.
Essay is effectively organized.
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has more effective control of language.
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Reasonable analysis of how author depicts the subject.
Sustained and competent reading of the passage.
Attention to literary devices.
Less perceptive than 9/8.
Less convincing than 9/8.
Ideas are presented with clarity,
Ideas are presented with control,
Refers to text for support.
7 presents better developed analysis than 6.
‘7 has more consistent command of elements of effective composition than 6.
Plausible reading of the passage.
Superficial analysis
Thin analysis.
‘Attention to literary devices may be slight.
Support from passage may tend toward summary or paraphrase.
‘Adequate control of language but marred by surface errors.
‘Not well conceived,
Not well organized.
Not fully developed.
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Analysis is irrelevant.
May ignore more difficult task of the prompt. .
May ignore literary devices. -only device used
Unfocused presentation of ideas. 1s. Imagery
Repetitive presentation of ideas.
‘Absence of textual support.
‘Accumulation of errors.
Significant misreading,
Demonstrates inept writing
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Persistently misread the passage.
‘Unacceptably brief.
Pervasive errors that interfere with understanding.
Does respond to prompt.
LUttle clarity
LUttle organization.
Ltle support from the passage.
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